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Today, August 9th is the anniversary of some major historical events. In 1854 Thoreau published "Walden" (way before my time, but of major significance); In 1945 the United States dropped an Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki (I could never understand why people always talk about Hiroshima, be seldom about Nagasaki); In 1974 Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign (like the assassination of John Kennedy, I find that most people remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of the resignation. Me? I was in a restaurant. The salad was good, the steak tough and being young and idealistic... the news was great.) When Thoreau published "Walden" there were no computers. When Nagasaki was bombed the personal computer was only a fanasty in someone's mind and when Nixon resigned computers couldn't display a single image. Today we talk about the memory capacity of the registry's computers in terbytes (1000 gigabytes) and display literally millions of images. History always makes us remember how much the world changes. This is even more the case when dealing with a department like the registry of deeds that relys on computers.
I can't even imagine how much our operation will change in the next ten years.